Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.

tains picture of the contemplate,
Union railroad depot, but this insti
; tuition Is no yet In esse.
THOMAS POWERS, a saloon keeper
was shot and MORALLY wounded n
Indianapolis, Ind, on Monda,
morning, it is supposed by his father
There are fourinches ofwater or IN,
Shoals. The Crusader started dowr
from Nashville on Tuesday evening
She will have to "sand-bag' over tn,
Shoals.
On Monday night a negro mar
killed a young negro woman with {
razor at Columbus, Ohio, using III,
sharp instrument with brutal and ter
rible effect.
ELI Williams, a well to do farmer
residing near Portland, Ind, was
killed Saturday night in the water
melon patch of a neighbor named
Levi Pence.
The eolored people of Vlcksburg
have been greatly exercised over the
appearance among them of a negro
who claims to be an African prince.
Ills mission has not yet transplred.
There is to be "a grand Reunion of
the Ex-Confederates soldiesat Frank
lin, Tenn, on the 23rd inst. Ar
engagements are being made to enter
tain 10000 people.
Rev. John Dobbins, of Camden,
N. j., has made large fortune mar
rying runaway couples from Penn
sylvania. He marries six or seven
couples every day.-Bqnaer.
A LITTLE boy at Chattanooga
caught at an elevator as it was as
cending, when it struck the second
floor his hold was loosened and he
fell into the cellar breaking his skull.
American.
Gov. Gordon and Gen. Pierce M.
b. Young. are arranging to treat
President Cleveland and lady to O
great military display and sham bat
tie on Keneshaw mountain during
their contemplated visit.
About 5000 doctors from all parts
of the world met at Washington CITY
on the 9Th. President Cleveland
attended the meeting by invitation.
DIR. c. w. Beaumont represents
GAINESVILLE in the convention.
Jack Turner, a Bell county, KY,
was shot down from an am
bush and killed the other day at
Pineville, and his own nephew was
one of his slayers. His body was
pierced with fifteen bullets.
AT sunrise, on Friday morning
burglar entered the residence of O.
F. Noel, in Nashville, Tenn.
Turing the absence of the
amily, and helped himself to every
hing he wanted.
Saturday night, John Moran, the
at Mrs. Friels, on Gran
~ White pike. Nashville, Tenn,
hot Archer Ferguson, colored, in
he forehead, the bullet ranging
lownwards and tearing out his right
we.
A collision occurred at Mckenzie !
N the North Western Division of the {
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. t
Iouis railway on the 4th at o'clock. !
4 which fireman Frank Winfred d
'as badly crushed. Little hope is c
ntertained of his recovery.
Brown Hal, a stallion owned bv
ampbell Brown, of Ewell farm.
prlng Hill, Tenn, broke the re- =
'rd of2:l33 at Lexington, KY, Aug. =
!. He has now the latest PACING u
cord of any horse in the United Il
ateS.--CdUmbia cor. d Nashville 81
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AT Bruins wick Tennessee, four - :,
hite men brutally murdered a =,
lrmless negro and threw his BODY u'
to the river. The murderers wore =:
I'm Pennsylvania, Illinois, and y
wa. Coffman sthe man who did "
shooting was arrested. The 9th -
escaped, but officers are in pursuit ~
them. an
tel
A young man and lady of East re
IN, Ca, who were engaged 10 be III
lrried, started to visit a new house vo
lit for them by the bridegroom or,
her, when the horse attached to the on
ggy in which they were riding ran %,
ay, and the bride was killed in ola
ntly, and the bridegroom MORALLY Z,
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